1864 in Ireland

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Decades: 1840s • 1850s • 1860s • 1870s • 1880s Centuries: 17th • 18th • 19th • 20th • 21st See also: 1864 in the United Kingdom Other events of 1864 List of years in Ireland

Events

• 30 January - Opening of the National Gallery of Ireland in Dublin.
• Foundation of the Munster Bank later rescued as the Munster & Leinster Bank. See Allied Irish Banks.

Arts and literature

• Sheridan Le Fanu publishes Uncle Silas.

Births

• 13 February - Stephen Gwynn, journalist, writer, poet and Nationalist politician (d.1950).
• 22 February - Michael Donohoe, Democrat U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania (d.1958).
• 4 March - Daniel Mannix, Catholic clergyman, Archbishop of Melbourne for 46 years (d.1963).
• 5 May - Henry Hughes Wilson, British Field Marshal and Conservative Party politician, killed by the Irish Republican Army (d.1922).
• 11 May - Ethel Lilian Voynich, novelist and musician (d.1960).
• 16 July - Joseph O'Mara, opera singer (d.1927).
• 1 September - Roger Casement, British diplomat, nationalist, poet and Irish revolutionary, executed at Pentonville Prison (d.1916).
• 19 October - Thomas Pakenham, 5th Earl of Longford, peer and soldier (d.1915).
• 11 November - John Meredith, Australian Army Brigadier General (d.1942).
• 22 November - Sir William Moore, 1st Baronet, Unionist MP and Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland 1925-1937 (d.1944).
• 9 December - Willoughby Hamilton, tennis player, Wimbledon Champion in 1890 (d.1943).
• 21 December - James Whiteside McCay, Lieutenant General in the Australian Army, member of the Victorian and Australian Parliaments (d.1930).

Full date unknown

• William Gerard Barry, painter (d.1941).
• Denis Grimes, Limerick hurler (d.1920).
• Seán O'Μahony, Sinn Féin MP (d.1934).
• Moira O'Neill, poet (d.1955).

Deaths

• 20 May - John George Bowes, businessman and political figure in Canada East (b. c1812).
• 4 July - Thomas Colley Grattan, writer (b.1792).
• 23 July - Thomas Laughnan, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Lucknow, India (b.1824).
• 21 November - Bishop Charles McNally, Bishop of Clogher 1844-1864 (b.1787).
• 30 November - Patrick Cleburne, major general in Confederate States Army in the American Civil War, killed at the Battle of Franklin (b.1828).
• 8 December - George Boole, mathematician (b.1815).
• 23 December - James Bronterre O'Brien, Chartist leader, reformer and journalist (b.1805).

Full date unknown

• Nicholas Callan, priest and scientist (b.1799).
• Joseph Patrick Haverty, painter (b.1794).